Newhall Farm, Sunnyslack, Broughton Moor, Maryport CA15 7RL Data via plota.co.uk

AGR/2026/0055 - Prior notification In Review

Proposal

Prior notification application for proposed extension of existing building to provide additional space for new biomass boiler and storage of materials Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 11 Nov 2026, 09:55

Application progress

✓

Received

around 3 Nov 2026

Decision

Expected by 1 Dec 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 1 Dec 2026 and 11 Dec 2026, from recent prior approvals across the UK.

Documents 9

Site constraints 4

Agricultural land, grade 4

Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 3. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Also on the record

Public footpath about 29 m away; Radon affected area, class 2; Coalfield, development low risk area.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 3 November 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Mining Remediation Authority, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council: Allerdale
Application type: Prior notification
Postcode: CA15 7RL
Received: around 3 Nov 2026
Validated: 3 Nov 2026
Ward: Maryport South
Parish: Broughton Moor CP
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 1 Dec 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Ken Thompson

Decision outlook

Day 9 of the 56-day target. Councils usually decide prior approvals by day 34.

prediction

Day 947 days to the 56-day target

92%decided within 8 weeks

83%approved

34,504decided in the last year

Plota live figures for prior approvals decided across the UK in the last twelve months, from validation; too few recent prior approvals in Allerdale to go on. Allerdale decision record →